The Secrets Presents: Digital Career Guide by New York Times bestselling author, Michael A. Stackpole

The Digital Career Guide breaks down all the steps necessary to set yourself up for success in the post-paper era of publishing. The guide covers four major areas: You, Words, Hype and Numbers—the four key areas in which you have to excel if you want to establish yourself.

You deals with the challenges that you, the author, will face in readying yourself to create a successful business as a writer. Many people decide to become writers because of the romance of the book, and dream about seeing their name on a book without any understanding of the hard work that entails. This guide walks you past the pitfalls and puts you on the path to success.

Words covers the ways in which technology and society consume entertainment products. Michael A. Stackpole walks you through a step-by-step process of creating the sort of stories that will sell to both the digital and print markets, and points out how a variety of projects that never would have sold in the past become winners in the new marketplace.

Hype gives you a command of self-promotion, including a detailed explanation of why so many authors are headed toward disaster. Michael explains what you need to do to establish yourself online, to build a community and an audience, and points to which easily available and free tools you can use to get there.

Numbers explains the intricacies of running a business with an eye toward making you profitable as quickly as possible. This includes a discussion of formats and distribution systems that will get your work out to as many people as possible fast.

This guide comes in a zipped into an archive that includes both the PDF and the epub versions of the book.

The Digital Career Guide is the culmination of six years experience running a publishing business online, brought to you by the first author to have his work on sale in the Apple Appstore. If you want to make your dream of having a writing career come true, this is the guide that will get you started.